2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 11,861 people earned their degree in communications, making the major the 65th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 30 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communications programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the communications program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine doctor’s degree communication arts students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s communication arts students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communications Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMaine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communications at University of Maine

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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